OpenAI agents scanned a UN statistics site 16,500 times, researcher says
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Agentic crawlers quietly brute-forcing a UN stats API with proxies and encoding tricks is a preview of how automated traffic will stress every public data surface you rely on. If your product depends on rate-limited third-party data, you need bot policies, monitoring, and commercial data access plans before someone else’s agents trip the alarms.
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